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Jack Dalrymple, North Dakota Governor: Abortion Ban Likely To Be Challenged, Will Test Roe v. Wade

Gov Admits Newly Signed Abortion Ban Likely To Draw Challenge
North Dakota Gov. Jack Dalrymple speaks on Monday, April 16, 2012, to a group of North Dakota state agency administrators in the Brynhild Haugland Room of the North Dakota Capitol in Bismarck, N.D., about the guidelines they should follow in drafting budgets for the 2013-15 biennium. Dalrymple asked the agency directors to prepare budgets without increasing their current spending levels, and to identify possible 3 percent reductions. (AP Photo/Dale Wetzel)
North Dakota Gov. Jack Dalrymple speaks on Monday, April 16, 2012, to a group of North Dakota state agency administrators in the Brynhild Haugland Room of the North Dakota Capitol in Bismarck, N.D., about the guidelines they should follow in drafting budgets for the 2013-15 biennium. Dalrymple asked the agency directors to prepare budgets without increasing their current spending levels, and to identify possible 3 percent reductions. (AP Photo/Dale Wetzel)

By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

BISMARCK, N.D. -- North Dakota Gov. Jack Dalrymple acknowledges a court battle is likely after he signed legislation banning most abortions if a fetal heartbeat can be detected - something that can happen as early as six weeks into a pregnancy.

The Republican governor says in a statement that "the likelihood of this measure surviving a court challenge remains in question." He calls the measure "a legitimate attempt by a state legislature to discover the boundaries" of the U.S. Supreme Court's 1973 Roe v. Wade ruling.

Dalrymple on Tuesday also signed into law another measure that would makes North Dakota the first to ban abortions based on genetic defects such as Down syndrome. He also endorsed a measure that requires a doctor who performs abortions to be a physician with hospital-admitting privileges.

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